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KRABATA. MYCEN^. 31
in the Sicilian ruins. The place was fortified with rough blocks in
the most ancient manner, which Houel imagines the work of the
Siculi. There are many sepulchres in the rock as well as circular
magazines near these ruins. The same author found in the road from
Militello to Vizzini among the ruins of an ancient city, a square
chamber, beyond which was a second apartment covered with a
vault, the stones of which were all placed horizontally, and as he
says ill hewn and ill constructed, though of great magnitude. It is
to be remarked that the great magazines of corn at Agrigentum are
of exactly the same shape, but are cut in the rock. At My cense on
the right a door is seen which has been secured by strong bolts,
diminishing from four feet nine inches to four feet six inches, and
which is the entrance into an inner chamber 27 feet long and 20
broad. The roof and sides of this cavern seem to consist entirely of
crumbling earth without any support, but it is possible both walls
and roof might be found by excavation, though the work would be
dangerous. This door has also a triangular opening above the archi-
trave.
Pausanias mentions this edifice. " Among the ruins of Mycenae
is a fountain named Perseia, and the subterraneous chambers of
Atreus and his sons, in which treasuries their riches were deposited;
there is also the sepulchre of Atreus and of all those whom iEgisthus
slew at the supper with Agamemnon at his return from Troy/' Corin-
thiaca, 59. It is of little consequence whether these treasuries or ma-
gazines were erected by Atreus or his predecessors. Atreus was the
greatest of the princes of the Peloponnesus, and the Atridae were
in the Sicilian ruins. The place was fortified with rough blocks in
the most ancient manner, which Houel imagines the work of the
Siculi. There are many sepulchres in the rock as well as circular
magazines near these ruins. The same author found in the road from
Militello to Vizzini among the ruins of an ancient city, a square
chamber, beyond which was a second apartment covered with a
vault, the stones of which were all placed horizontally, and as he
says ill hewn and ill constructed, though of great magnitude. It is
to be remarked that the great magazines of corn at Agrigentum are
of exactly the same shape, but are cut in the rock. At My cense on
the right a door is seen which has been secured by strong bolts,
diminishing from four feet nine inches to four feet six inches, and
which is the entrance into an inner chamber 27 feet long and 20
broad. The roof and sides of this cavern seem to consist entirely of
crumbling earth without any support, but it is possible both walls
and roof might be found by excavation, though the work would be
dangerous. This door has also a triangular opening above the archi-
trave.
Pausanias mentions this edifice. " Among the ruins of Mycenae
is a fountain named Perseia, and the subterraneous chambers of
Atreus and his sons, in which treasuries their riches were deposited;
there is also the sepulchre of Atreus and of all those whom iEgisthus
slew at the supper with Agamemnon at his return from Troy/' Corin-
thiaca, 59. It is of little consequence whether these treasuries or ma-
gazines were erected by Atreus or his predecessors. Atreus was the
greatest of the princes of the Peloponnesus, and the Atridae were